Between Tradition and Innovation - Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School

This book offers an analysis of the ground breaking mathematical work of Gregorio a San Vicente and his student and shows that the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School had profound influence on mathematics in the seventeenth century.

About the author

Ad Meskens (1962), Ph.D., AP University College Antwerp, is a lecturer on the didactics of mathematics. He has published extensively on the history of mathematics in the Low Countries including Mathematics in a Commercial Metropolis (Springer, 2013). He is an active member of the Flemish Association of Mathematics Teachers.

Product details

• Authors: Ad J Meskens, Ad J. Meskens
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2021
• EAN: 9789004414990
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41499-0
• No. of pages: 308
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Jesuit Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918